16 Metaphors for courtesies

She was used to frank admiration, but this unembarrassed courtesy was a new world to her.

Punctilious courtesy, frank apology for unintentional wrong, is with us a point of honour.

These battles of the churches seem far away to us of the twentieth century, but they were very real to the warriors of those days, and, while many of the tenets of their faith may seem narrow to us, they were gospel to the godly of that tune, and reverence, obedience, filial piety, and courtesy were the rule and not the exception that they are to-day.

Needless to add that I at once wrote to Mr. Darwin that we would not call him, but his gentle courtesy has always remained a pleasant memory to me.

"Man hard of heart to Man! ... of horrid things Most horrid; midst stupendous highly strange: Yet oft his courtesies are smoother wrongs; Pride brandishes the favours he confers, And contumelious his Humanity.

It all comes of taking society just as we find it, and supposing that conventional courtesy is the only safe ground on which men and women can meet.

She positively is the only Fine Lady of Antiquity: her courtesy to the Trojans is altogether queen-like.

True courtesy, that is, courtesy born of a true heart, is a most lovely, and absolutely indispensable graceone that nobody but a Christian can thoroughly develop.

Your courtesy to the King was perfection itself.

The small courtesies you deemed it necessary to show Madame de are proofs of it.

Their courtesy to each other is a never-ending pleasure to me.

His very courtesy was sterner than the displeasure of another, and I already felt towards him a greater degree of awe than I should have quite cared to confess.

The courtesies which the young ladies swept their host and hostess were marvels of grace and dexterity, and were noted with approval by the young gentlemen who lined the walls or talked to the ladies already foregathered.

So, if Mrs. Evans had counted on Gladys's dress that night to testify to the soundness of the Evans fortune she was destined to be disappointed; but on the other hand, if inborn courtesy is a sign of high birth and breeding, then Gladys had proven herself to be a princess of the royal blood.

On the other hand, were he to refuse he has the fear hanging over him that the petitioner might get a death-bone pointed at himand so, after all, his apparent courtesy may be only Hobson's choice.

They have a hotel there which advertises through the seductive fly-pages of our magazines in the following terms: "Courtesy to strangers is a marked feature in the management of" But we remember in time that we have no right to interfere with the advertising columns.

16 Metaphors for  courtesies